DataDigest: National rent price growth normalizes, while Austin rents lose steam

DataDigest: National rent price growth normalizes, while Austin rents lose steam

The pandemic-era boom in single-family rental prices is over, according to CoreLogic‘s Single-Family Rent Index. The index, which analyzes single-family rent price changes nationally and across major metropolitan areas, tracked 13-15% annual... Read more »
DataDigest: National rent price growth normalizes, while Austin rents lose steam

DataDigest: Fannie Mae’s market view gets rosier, but traders get more skeptical

Last month, DataDigest explored market experts’ expectations for 2024, with the consensus calling for a moderately better housing market than 2023. But a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee the following... Read more »
DataDigest: Breaking down housing economists’ 2024 forecasts

DataDigest: Breaking down housing economists’ 2024 forecasts

As 2023 draws to a close, housing professionals hope for relief from the high mortgage rates, terrible inventory levels and slow sales that characterized the year. They may find that relief for... Read more »
DataDigest: What the latest data says about home prices, construction and sales

DataDigest: What the latest data says about home prices, construction and sales

Record high home prices continue to inch higher, even as homebuilders offer discounts and build a higher rate than pre-pandemic levels, according to a host of data releases over the last week.... Read more »
DataDigest: How and where homebuilders are closing deals

DataDigest: How and where homebuilders are closing deals

For the fourth consecutive month, homebuilder confidence sank in November, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index published last week. The pessimistic streak is especially notable given... Read more »
DataDigest: iBuyers slide farther from hyped market disruption

DataDigest: iBuyers slide farther from hyped market disruption

“Significant untapped growth potential,” touts a slide in an Offerpad Solutions Inc. presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or... Read more »
DataDigest: Nearly 100,000 LOs have washed out

DataDigest: Nearly 100,000 LOs have washed out

For years broker channel evangelists told me that a down market would give them an edge on their retail brethren. Well, it’s certainly been a down market. How has the broker channel... Read more »